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Written by Tom Ehrich, Church Wellness
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Monday, 20 September 2010 15:47 |
Once, on a reporting assignment, I flew into Bismarck, North Dakota, just before winter’s brutal assault.
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Written by Tom Ehrich, Church Wellness
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Monday, 23 August 2010 04:04 |
Members and officers, my word to you is this: be entrepreneurs.
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Written by Tom Ehrich, Church Wellness
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Monday, 26 July 2010 16:11 |
If congregations want to turn around public skepticism, mission work ought to be their first priority.
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Written by Tom Ehrich
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Friday, 02 July 2010 17:30 |
If ever there was a time for the “multi” in Multichannel Church, it is now, as summer arrives and people scatter physically and emotionally.
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Written by Tom Ehrich, Church Wellness
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Sunday, 13 June 2010 00:00 |
Of the three venues for Multichannel Church — on-site, off-site and online — “the greatest of these” is online.
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Written by Tom Ehrich, Church Wellness
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Sunday, 16 May 2010 14:42 |
What’s actually new about a Multichannel Church?
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Written by Tom Ehrich, Church Wellness
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Sunday, 02 May 2010 23:35 |
This summer, in addition to doing less of the main thing, I suggest you do more of smaller things.
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Written by Tom Ehrich
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Monday, 19 April 2010 01:18 |
Two generations ago, the deal was pretty clear: church members went to Sunday worship.
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Written by Tom Ehrich, Church Wellness
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Monday, 05 April 2010 02:14 |
Moving toward being a “multichannel church” is a journey of many steps, some of them slight variations, some of them radical departures.
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Written by tom ehrich
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Sunday, 07 March 2010 15:31 |
We all have worn, unhelpful tapes winding through our thoughts, and church leaders do as well. One tape they need to stop playing is we-all-need-to-be-together-in-one-place.
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Written by tom ehrich
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Sunday, 21 February 2010 17:07 |
If life did allow for do-overs and mainline congregations could start over, they probably wouldn’t build the facilities they have inherited.
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Written by Tom Ehrich, Church Wellness
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Monday, 08 February 2010 16:43 |
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It has taken little more than one generation for American Protestantism to lose control of Sunday morning.
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Written by Tom Ehrich
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Sunday, 10 January 2010 16:26 |
Like many church leaders, I have been grappling with the steady decline of mainline Protestant churches over the past 45 years and trying to determine what we can do about it.
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Written by Tom Ehrich, Church Wellness
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Monday, 28 December 2009 22:40 |
Many churchgoers are caught in a three-part dilemma:
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Written by Tom Erich
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Monday, 14 December 2009 00:00 |
A young adults minister recently presented a paper to her colleagues on how to understand and respond to Generation X, Generation Y, or, in her shorthand, “Generation XY.”
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Written by Tom Ehrich
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Monday, 07 December 2009 00:00 |
Measuring outcomes needn’t be any more difficult for a church than for, say, a corporation.
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Written by Tom Ehrich, Church Wellness
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Monday, 30 November 2009 05:28 |
Forty young adults ventured to a pastor’s manse for Sunday brunch.
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Written by Tom Ehrich
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Monday, 23 November 2009 01:35 |
What is the most effective way to promote church activities, report church news, and invite participation? It is e-mail marketing.
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Written by Tom Ehrich, Church Wellness
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Monday, 16 November 2009 16:20 |
It’s tempting to give everyone a “stewardship break” this year. The Great Recession is still going on, jobs are tenuous, personal finances are tight. — not a good time to ask for money.
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Written by Tom Ehrich, Church Wellness
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Wednesday, 28 October 2009 15:34 |
If every strategy for fixing pastors succeeded — if they were re-visioned, re-trained, re-newed, re-stored — two things would happen.
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Written by TOM EHRICH
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Monday, 19 October 2009 18:15 |
Social networking tools are all the rage, but do they hold promise for faith communities?
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Written by Tom Erich
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Monday, 12 October 2009 16:12 |
At age 16, Paul McCartney wrote a love song about two lovers growing old together. Eight years later, as his own father turned 64, McCartney included “When I’m 64” in the list for “Sgt. Pepper,” the Beatles’ 1967 album.
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Written by Tom Ehrich, Church Wellness
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Sunday, 04 October 2009 17:22 |
If you’ve ever driven across the United States, you know that there is more than one way to make the trip.
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Written by Tom Ehrich, Church Wellness
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Sunday, 27 September 2009 00:00 |
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In my newspaper reporting days, we were always guided by the “Five W’s” (actually five W’s and one H), who, what, where, when, how, and why.
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